Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1240-1 links2 -- insufficient escaping

Date Reported:

21 Dec 2006

Affected Packages:

links2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 400718.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5925.

More information:

Teemu Salmela discovered that the links2 character mode web browser performs insufficient sanitising of smb:// URIs, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1pre16-1sarge1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1pre26-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1pre26-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your links2 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (stable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/links2/links2_2.1pre16-1sarge1_mips.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.